Sketch of the Supreme Court at the hearing on the Affordable Care Act. (AP)

A Houston law professor said if the Supreme Court justices get rid of the health-care law, we should get rid of them.

David R. Dow, the Cullen Professor at the University of Houston Law Center, made his case in a column published Tuesday on The Daily Beast website.

In the article, Dow begins by introducing the precedent: Thomas Jefferson was a leader in a movement to impeach a Justice Samuel Chase because he felt Chase’s rulings undermined the Constitution.

It’s not simply the health-care law though – Dow also cites the 2007 case of Gonzales v. Carhart (upheld the partial-birth abortion ban) and the Citizens United case (which opened the door for Super PACs) as times where the court has acted incorrectly.

But although the notion of a Supreme Court justice being impeached is technically possible, it’s unimaginable, said H. W. Perry Jr., a associate law professor at University of Texas-Austin and author of Deciding to Decide: Agenda Setting in the United States Supreme Court.

Multiple polls and surveys show the Supreme Court is popular among the people, and the grounds for impeachment, while unclear, would likely need something stronger than how the justices voted.

“If it’s not an impeachment for a high crime, it would compromise the independence of the judiciary,” Perry said.

Plus, even though Dow cited the precedent of Jefferson, Chase was acquitted by the Senate in 1805 – even a president as popular as Franklin Jefferson was not successful in using his influence on the Supreme Court.

The health-care law has a long history of controversy and someone could call for the impeachment, Perry said. It’s just not likely to actually result in a justice being removed.